けん
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (97 in total)
outside the prefecture
in the prefecture; prefectural
owned by the prefecture
Examples (6 in total)
Tulips are our prefecture's official flower.
The damage of the typhoon spread over several prefectures.
The geographical features here are similar to those of our prefecture.
I am sure I'll get along with him because we are from the same prefecture.
There are 43 prefectures in Japan.
This river forms the boundary between the two prefectures.